Word: portnoy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though reviews have been generally deserving, one that particularly delighted the perpetrators appeared in Newsday's rival Long Island Press. Wrote Columnist Walter Kaner: "Penelope Ashe's scorching novel makes Portnoy's Complaint and Valley of the Dolls read like Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm.'" McGrady still insists that the stunt was an exercise in gullibility, not profiteering. But with any luck, success may yet spoil his two dozen Penelope Ashes. In his latest memo, he has urged his fellow novelists "to be thinking about a sequel. One suggested title is Son of the Naked Stranger. Personally...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...altar Claude succumbs to a touch of Portnoy's complaint. He develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
...Portnoy's Complaint, Roth...
...much. As soon as I got home, I unnerved myself from two months of Cambridge with a bottle of wine and ten hours' sleep. As soon as I regained consciousness I grabbed a copy of Portnoy and tried to forget about the vagaries of scholarship I'd been pursuing and bury myself pleasurably in the contemporary experience...